Scott Macpherson

2015, there was four pin positions over the four days, round one, two, three, four.

And on three of those days, it was really tight to the burn.

Round one and two, it was 12 and 13 yards.

Round three, it went 30 yards to the back of the green.

This is measurements from the front.

And on round four, it came back and it was 12 yards from the burn.

And you jump forward to the next open.

And, you know, again, technology has improved.

RNA is still looking to, you know,

protect power, and provide other challenges, right?

And the pins positions for that year were identical almost to the previous year, except they were closer to the burn.

So now round one, six yards.

Round two, seven yards.

Round three, 31 yards.

Round four, back to sort of six yards.

So we've halved the difference between, in seven years, we've gone from 12 being quite close to the burn

to six or seven yards.

It's an interesting thing.

Competitive golf gives us an opportunity to compare things, particularly the data coming out now.

We're drowning in data more than we've ever had.